IGI3 459 Accounts of Pheidias' statue of Athena (abandoned version)

Accounts of Pheidias' statue of Athena (abandoned version)

IG I³ 459 Date: 445-438 BC

Gods. Athena. Fortune. Kichesippos of Myrrhinous was secretary to the overseers of the statue (agalmatos). (5) Receipt from Uninscribed Uninscribed^[1]

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References:

IG I³ 459 (Translated text) (IG Online) (PHI)

ML 54A/1

Fornara, Translated documents 114A b

OR 135A/1

Translation by: Stephen Lambert, Robin Osborne

Monument type: Stele

Inscription type: Account

Findspot: Acropolis (EM 6765)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] This attempt to inscribe these accounts of Pheidias' colossal statue of Athena was abandoned in l. 5, perhaps because the cutter had not left enough space to fit in the figures. The second, more successful, attempt is IG I³ 458. The stone was kept on the acropolis and presumably reused.

Added: 20 Jan 2016
Updated: 3 Nov 2023
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